Some good news. One of my screenplays made the semifinals in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay & Teleplay Competition. Apparently out of 8,627 scripts submitted to the festival, it is one out of only ten scripts selected in the "Horror Award" category, sponsored by the production company founded by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead).

EILEEN PRATT picked up for US/Europe & South African distribution on SHORTS HD

More great news, my short film EILEEN PRATT has been picked up for distribution through SHORTS HD for US/Europe and South Africa territories. A division of SHORTS INTERNATIONAL, Shorts HD is the first high definition channel dedicated to short movies and is available in the US on DirecTV (Channel 568) and AT&T U-verse (Channel 1789).

"So often directors trying to capture history on screen tend to fail their ambitions by making everything look brand new, or by mistakenly incorporating anachronisms, but here Kratochvil really succeeds in capturing not only the old look but also the mood and mannerisms of these gangs.

Now, whoever is writing a Mods vs Sharpies movie please give the directing reins to this guy. I think it's high time we had a worthy successor to Romper Stomper."

On a roll with the good news this week. I'm happy to announce that I've been selected byLADYHAWKE and MODULAR PEOPLEas the winner of the MY NIKON LIFE 'Blue Eyes' video competition! I'll get to direct an official video clip for the Jacques Renault remix of the Ladyhawke track 'Blue Eyes' based on a treatment I submitted. Look out for the clip in December.

EILEEN PRATT will screen before the feature film FRANCINE, starring Melissa Leo, at the Loft Film Fest in Tucson, Arizona on Monday Nov 12th. I'll be in attendance for the SCREENING . It looks like a great line up of films and guests, including Roger Corman and one of my favorite directors Don Coscarelli (Phantasm) in attendance at the festival.

Eileen is heading back to the US! EILEEN PRATT will be playing the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina, screening on Fri Nov 9th, 10:15pm in the Phargon Shorts (say what?) block as part of the Midnight Madness program. I'll be flying out to attend the festival, looks like a great lineup of independent film.

EILEEN PRATT screened at the debut Cockatoo Island Film Festival in Sydney amongst a great line-up of films at the festival, including the Australian premiere of The Master, with director Paul Thomas Anderson in attendance.

EILEEN PRATT is headed back to the US! I'm pleased to report the film will be screening at the 35th Mill Valley Film Festival in Marin County, California. Looks like a fantastic line-up of films and guests, including the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Ben Affleck, Ewan McGregor, Ang Lee, Walter Salles, Billy Bob Thornton, David O'Russell and Stevie Nicks expected to attend. The film will screen in the short program "5@5: Slippery People" at the Rafael Film Centre on Oct 7th 9:45pm and Oct 9th at 5pm.

I'm pleased to report that EILEEN PRATT will be screening in competition at the FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival on Wed 8th August 4:00pm. This will be the 3rd Academy Awards accredited festival in the US that the film will screen at so far this year. Click the LINK for more details on the screening.

Michael Kratochvil won the "Best Pitch" award at the 2012 Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab. Voted by a panel of internationally renown feature film producers and heads of development, the pitch was for Michael's forthcoming project, a feature length horror film script.

I'm pleased to announce that EILEEN PRATT will have its Australian premiere at the Dungog Film Festival in NSW. The film will screen as part of the "A Girl's Gotta Do" program. CLICK to check out the lineup.

The good news keeps on rolling in! EILEEN PRATT has been selected to screen at the 2012 Palm Springs International ShortFest in June. It is a great honor to have the film screen amongst such a star studded selection of films. Click to check out the lineup.

More great news. EILEEN PRATT has been selected out of over 1200 entries to screen in competition at the Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival in London in July. Rushes is yet another BAFTA accredited festival that the film will screen at.

Some more exciting news regarding EILEEN PRATT The film has been selected to screen at the 66th Edinburgh International Film Festival in June. It will screen as part of the Fusion Shorts program. Great to see they have used the EILEEN PRATT trailer on their website to promote the program. Click to check it out.

Writer/Director Michael Kratochvil was also fortunate enough to be one of just 30 filmmakers worldwide selected to join the Talent Lab at the Edinburgh festival, which will be a fantastic opportunity to learn from established industry professionals in a workshop environment. He will attend the festival in June.

Keep an eye on the EILEEN PRATT Facebook Page and this website for updates from the festival.

Great news, EILEEN PRATT has been accepted to screen at the Brooklyn Film Festival for a New York premiere in June 2012. The film was fortunate enough to be selected out of over 2000 entries and 111 countries. The internationally renown festival is recognized as a British Academy Awards (BAFTA) qualifying festival. Click to check out the Eileen Pratt page.

02-01-2012

Happy new year! The Slamdance 2012 festival program is now live. Please visit the link below for more information on the films screening at the festival and for how to purchase tickets to see the world premiere of Eileen Pratt in Park City.

With over 3000 short film submissions to the Slamdance festival
this year, Eileen Pratt was one of just 32 narrative shorts selected to
screen in competition at the festival and will screen as part of the Shorts
Block 3 at the Gallery Screening Room at the Treasure Mountain Inn on:

1) January 20th 1pm

2) January 26th 12:30pm

Writer/Director Michael Kratochvil
will attend the festival. Please visit the Slamdance website for ticket details and keep an eye on our facebook page for more
news and details of upcoming screenings in other territories.

For an Eileen Pratt press kit or more information on the film, please contact Michael at:

Click below to view the video and be sure to select 720p for HD playback:

02-06-2011

Eileen Pratt, a 14 minute short film, written and directed by Michael Kratochvil, has just finished post production. The film will be submitted to the worldwide film festival circuit shortly.

Starring Susanne Chapman as "Eileen', Eileen Pratt is a narrative drama about a socially awkward bus driver who embarks on an unusual downward spiral after being terminated from her job.

We'll keep you updated with festival screenings along the way.

23-9-2010

Michael is currently in pre-production on his next short film Eileen Pratt, produced by Scott Baskett from Legitimate Films.

Eileen Pratt isscheduled to be filmed in October with a 2011 worldwide festival release.

20-9-2010

Michael has recently written, directed and edited two 20 minute educational programs for Video Education Australia, to be distributed in Australia and overseas markets. The videos are "Practical Use of Materials: Plastics" and "Practical Use of Materials: Metals".

14-8-2009

Igor & Mal will also screen at OH! THE HORROR! FILM FESTIVAL on Sunday, 23rd August. The film has been described by the organizers of the festival as a "Lynchian, nightmarish voodoo / familial zombie movie".